Associated Press sees light at the end of the tunnel

I hereby nominated Tom Curley for the 2009 Wishful Thinking Award

[weeks]

Don't you wish this were true?

"We stand at an enviable moment where Microsoft and Google have decided to go to war," AP President and CEO Tom Curley said in a Hong Kong speech. "And we who produce content can begin to figure out whether there's an opportunity for us to help that sharing in a way that reverses the outflow of money from media and takes it back."
[editorandpublisher.com...]

[Syzygy]

No reason why it shouldn't be true given the development of new delivery channels and an inspired business model.

The full story is here [google.com].

Curley said AP was in talks with [Microsoft] about its new Internet search technology, which includes a feature allowing Web surfers to search using image galleries instead of text links.

He expected new strategies to improve readers' experience of online news to bear fruit in the next three to fifteen months.

Seems the game is very definitely afoot...

Syzygy